our first snow day!

last week we had our first snow day! our first couple of snow days actually!

surprisingly i did NOT bake anything, but i did snuggle a lot with my babies,  clean (as usual), & they took more baths than usual because i mean, wouldn't you? i had been wanting these letters for abel for-everrrrr & my sister found them at target... win! we had lots of fun spelling different things & putting them on the wall/taking them down repeatedly. hooray for snowdays! we love to get out and explore, but after traveling & the busy-ness of everyday life, it was nice to be snug at home together with nothing to do & no where to go. i'll take a couple more this season!

pumpkin pecan waffles, just another reason to love this time of year

I am on team pumpkin when it comes to fall. even more so when it's accompanied by chocolate chips or cinnamon or anything fall spice-ish. i'm also a fan of breakfast. put these two together? pumpkin pecan waffles. 

one of my favorite breakfast restaurants had one that was sinfully good but they shut down last year... womp womp. so when i got the hankering for one this year, my friend and i did some googling & found this recipe. well, yum. they turned out great (as if i suspected otherwise). we didn't make the maple pecan cream to go with, we just topped with pecans and used syrup, but i'm sure that stuff is dang good, so YOU should make it if you do this recipe & let me know how it is! i experimented again with these, added chocolate chips & skipped the pecans, and i could have eaten only those for a whole day they were so good. 

anyway! happy pumpkining to you! go eat some waffles :) 

wait, you mean life still goes on even when undocumented on social media?

so, last week i took an impromptu social media break...

it's so weird, but doesn't it feel like sometimes if it wasn't posted on IG or FB or whatever your favorite sharing platform is, it's almost like it didn't happen? am i the only one who's ever thought this? it's SO weird. it's not like it REALLY didn't happen, but sharing it with your friends and strangers on the WWW creates evidence for others to see that you actually have a life, or a baby, or whatever else! it's completely ridiculous, but i know i'm not crazy... you've thought it before too.

anyway, last week we had travel plans to visit our old stomping grounds in charlotte! chris had a work trip, and it just so happened to be my sweet friend's 30th birthday surprise party too, so the whole crew tagged along & made it a mini vaca. well, on the way to the airport chris challenged me in this social media cleanse & i did it. i deleted all of my favorite apps & undivided my attention for the remainder of the week. it was nice to be able to fully connect in person with our friends while we were visiting and also with our sweet little family. i have a love affair with that instagram i tell ya... but it was really good for me to disconnect & not be distracted & it was nice for my scrolling thumb to have a break too ;)

so... here's what you might have seen while surfing last week had i not been absent from cyber space... good thing i have a blog right? or else i'd be latergramming the heck out of these bad boys & you'd be like "3 grams in a row? seriously, you know the rules."

^^^flew to atlanta, drove 4 hrs to charlotte^^^

^^^surprised megan big time!^^^

^^^woke like this our first morning, thank you daylight savings... made it to church thanks to romeos watching our littles!^^^

  

^^^had to get cupcrazed... obviously^^^

^^^saw as many people as we could while in town & watched them love our babies^^^

^^^reunited at last^^^

^^^cast iron waffles... duh, but wasn't better than the waffle lab, so fort collins for the win!^^^

^^^took it easy^^^

^^^made new friends^^^

^^^sleeping babies on the way home?! how did we get so lucky?^^^

thanks for stopping in! xoxo

the lighting of old town + a video!

hiiii! so i am super excited, because this past weekend, old town declared it christmas time. wreaths are hung, the carols are playing in most of the shops & the beautiful lights are officially twinkling in all of the trees! we had never been before, but the lighting of old town was a sweet little event. there was a band & a choir, goodies & warm drinks! people were all gathered in oak plaza & everyone counted down and cheered as they flipped the switch that would light this cute little scene in our town.
i brought out my fancy camera & took video instead of pictures for the first time! it was so fun at the end of the night to go back & edit them all together & re-live the evening in a different way than i am used to! you can watch below!



music: sleigh ride by fun.

halloween, a week or so later... oops.

lions & tigers & bears... oh my!

so let me start by telling you that it only took 54,789 tries to get just one photo where we all looked somewhat pleasant... abel was. not. havin it. but this one i'll accept as 2014's halloween picture & document it here for all to see.

we had a fun evening at my mom's house, gourmet pizzas, a cozy fire, and all of my favorite people (some not pictured, womp womp) gathering together! happy halloween, check. next up?! christmas time!! i kid, i kid... i know thanksgiving falls somewhere in between, but seriously, i'm thankful all year long & our stockings are begging to be hung...